21 Bible Verses about Human Blood Shed

"'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.

Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.

The LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

'Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,' says the LORD; 'and I will repay you in this plot of ground,' says the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to the word of the LORD."

Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.

"Earth, do not cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.

You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be remembered no more: for I, the LORD, have spoken it."'"

I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the bare rock; she didn't pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust.

That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood on the bare rock, that it should not be covered.'

For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword on her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

In her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on the earth."

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;

That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from your enemies."

And suddenly a woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years came behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment;

Now a woman, who had an issue of blood for twelve years,

A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any,

When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.'

to Jesus, the mediator of a New Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.